 | 1888 - 272 pages
...water ; after which its springs fail for six days altogether, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh...order perpetually and exactly ; whence it is that t ey call it the Sabbatic River, that name being taken from the the sacred seventh day among the Jews."—... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...of water, after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh...it the Sabbatic river? that name being taken from jhe sacred seventh day among the Jews. • 2. But when the people of Antioch were informed that Titns... | |
 | Henry Berkowitz - 1898 - 94 pages
...of water, after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channels dry, as any one may see; after which days it runs on the seventh day...taken from the sacred seventh day among the Jews." This natural phenomenon, which is not at all strange in physical geography, arises simply from the... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1905 - 874 pages
...of water ; after which its springs fail for six days together and leave its channels dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh...and as though it had undergone no change at all : it has also been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly." The intermittent action is readily... | |
 | Benjamin (of Tudela), Marcus Nathan Adler - 1907 - 248 pages
...of water ; after which its springs fail for six days together and leave its channels dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh...and as though it had undergone no change at all : it has also been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly." The intermittent action is readily... | |
 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim - 1993 - 1030 pages
...water: after which its springs fail for six days all together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see: after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did hefore, and as though it had undergone no change at all: it hath also heen ohserved to keep this order... | |
 | M. a. Reverend a. R. Shilleto, Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 277 pages
...which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see. After this it runs on the seventh day as it did before, and as though it had undergone no change at all, and it has been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly : whence they call it the Sabbatic... | |
 | 1846 - 488 pages
...of water, after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh...this order perpetually and exactly — whence it is, they call it the Sabbatic River — that name being taken from the sacred seventh day of the Jews."... | |
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It hath somewhat very peculiar in it; for when it runs, its current is strong, and has plenty of water; after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it... 
